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unusual facts about World University Games



Daniel Madwed

In 2007, Madwed competed at the World University Games in Bangkok, where he won a gold medal as a part of the 4x200 m freestyle relay, a silver as a part of the 4x100 m medley relay, and a bronze in the 200 m butterfly.

Ken Flax

After college, Flax went on to compete in three World University Games winning a bronze and in 1991 he won the gold medal, beating the former number one ranked hammer thrower in the world, Heinz Weis.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat

In 2007, he was on the gold medal team at the World University Games.

Paul Hession

The following year Hession missed the World Championships but was rewarded with silver medal in the 200 m at the World University Games.


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Aikaterini Stefanidi

During the summer of 2011, she placed second at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Ostrava and third at Universiade (World University Games) in Shenzhen, China, after jumping a personal best of 4.45m to tie the Greek under-23 record.

Bonnie Henrickson

Henrickson served as an assistant coach, under head coach Rene Portland, of the USA representative to the 1999 World University Games (also known as the Universiade).

Debbie Ryan

Ryan served as the head coach of the USA representative to the 1999 World University Games (also known as the Universiade).

Graeme Dell

He has coached the British Universities (BUSA) National Football team at eight FISU World University Games (Universiade) in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, most recently losing in the semi-finals to Ukraine on penalty kicks, yet finishing in 4th place, Great Britain's highest finish since 1993 at that level.

Hermann Rieder

As a trainer, he coached among others Olympic champion Klaus Wolfermann, the 1979 World University Games champion Helmut Schreiber and the 1986 European champion Klaus Tafelmeier.

John Dore

John was Assistant Coach of Canada's Junior Men’s National Team, in 1998, and led several national teams, including Canadian entries at World University Games (Universiade) and the Maccabiah Games (with Glen Grunwald, former general manager of the Toronto Raptors).